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Beth Holmgren CV

Professor Emerita of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
316 Languages Building, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications


Rethinking the Biography of the Actor and Entertainer: Introduction

Journal Article Pamiętnik Teatralny · October 3, 2022 Instroduction to essay cluster on new methods of biographical writing/performing. ... Full text Cite

Rethinking the Biography of the Actor and Entertainer

Journal Article Pamietnik Teatralny · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Ganbare! Workshops on Dying

Journal Article LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES · 2022 Open Access Cite

Actors and Animants: ACTORS AND ACTING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chapter · January 1, 2022 Beth Holmgren charts the modes in which men functioned as gatekeepers in nineteenth-century professional theatre, which showed not only the parochialism of their views but a deep anxiety around sexuality that required the disciplining of women’s bodies on ... Full text Cite

Polish Cinema Today A Bold New Era in Film

Book · August 19, 2021 Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much m ... Cite

Poland 1945: War and Peace

Journal Article LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES · 2021 Cite

The Art of Loving: The Story of Michalina Wislocka

Journal Article SLAVIC REVIEW · January 1, 2020 Link to item Cite

The Jews in the Band: The Anders Army's Special Troupes

Journal Article Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Cabaret Nation: The Jewish Foundations of Kabaret Literacki, 1920-1929.

Chapter · February 2019 Collectively, these essays offer a different perspective. The volume has five sections. ... Cite

A Whole World of Mythology

Other Women's Review of Books · February 2019 A comparative review of Wioletta Greg's SWALLOWING MERCURY and Olga Tokarczuk's FLIGHTS. ... Cite

Holocaust history and jewish heritage preservation: Scholars and stewards working in pis-ruled Poland

Journal Article Shofar · January 1, 2019 This short essay presents an analytical update of how scholars, curators, and stewards are responding to the xenophobic climate and nationalist censorship being generated by the current Polish government under the rule of the right-wing Law and Justice (Pi ... Full text Open Access Cite

The Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919-1968

Chapter · October 30, 2018 Featured Publication Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments to take place in Poland over the last one hundred years. ... Cite

Jerzy Jurandot

Other Literary Encyclopedia · 2017 Link to item Cite

Transgressive women in modern Russian and east European cultures: From the bad to the blasphemous

Book · January 1, 2016 Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted “crimes” and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot,the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Ba ... Full text Open Access Cite